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Rob Bradley is an expert in the history of US energy markets. He explains the role of Sam Insull (co-founder of General Electric) in showing what a free market in electricity would look like, and then criticizes Texas’ ERCOT as a central planning agency.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

The YouTube version of this interview
Rob Bradley’s website, Master Resource
Rob’s article on the recent Texas freeze and Paul Krugman
Rob Bradley’s books Edison to Enron and Capitalism at Work
Harold Demsetz’s 1968 Journal of Law and Economics article, “Why Regulate Utilities?”
Robert Bryce’s book Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron
Forrest McDonald’s book Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon
Bob’s article on the Texas freeze
Bob Murphy Show episode 77, where Rob Bradley explains his education under Rothbard and his contributions to energy economics in the Austrian tradition

For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com. The Bob Murphy Show is also available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and via RSS.

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